The Mac Attack #87

Keeping your MacBook shinny, "The Missing Manual - Mac OS X: Leopard Edition" book review, listener voice mails and emails, basic Mac troubleshooting, David Sparks is back with a new "Sparks on tech" segment, a giveaway and a whole lot more on this episode of The Mac Attack.

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Mac Roundtable podcast

SuperDuper!

200+ productivity boosting keyboard shortcuts

David Sparks from macsparky.com

"Getting Sold on iTunes"

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition

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Basic Troubleshooting (quick list)
Listen to the show for details!

- Shut your Mac down, wait 10 to 15 seconds and restart.
- Try a safe boot - hold down the shift key after hearing the start up chime.
- Try disconnecting all peripherals connected to your computer. Boot with just your monitor, keyboard and mouse attached.
- Create a new user account, and see if the problem persists there.
- A keyboard or mouse gone bad can make it appear that your Mac is frozen.
- If an application stops responding you should force quit it.
- Relaunch the finder.
- Check free space on the system volume.
- Repair disk with Disk Utility.
- Use Cocktail, Onyx, or MainMenu to to repair disk permissions, run maintenance scripts, clean the user and system caches.
- Download and reinstall current Combo update.
- Is your computer acting up after a RAM upgrade?
- Get yourself a commercial drive tool - DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, Drive Genius.
- If all else fails reinstall the system from scratch or do an 'archive and install'.

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Contact Info:

email - [e-mail]
skype - tmasteve
pownce - Me on pownce
facebook - Me on facebook

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My CD available at CDBaby.com

My Music on iTunes (this link should open iTunes)

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